Samantha McLarty is an American actress born in Memphis, Tennessee. As an adolescent, she was an avid stage performer and award-winning country/ bluegrass vocalist. Since turning her attention to film, Samantha has worked to expand her skill set to include improvisation, stunt work, and effects makeup. Due to her striking appearance, Samantha is often cast as supernatural beings and strong-willed women. She has played a tenacious heist artist in Synthetic Phoenix (2018), a Eurotrash vampire on The CW hit series The Originals (2017), and a neo-Nazi of the Fourth Reich in River City Dead (2010). In 2018, Samantha earned a supporting role opposite Richard Speight Jr (Supernatural) as the unwilling host of a malevolent entity in the independent film Driven, a role for which her dialogue was improvised.